Kimi K2.6
Kimi K2.6 is a general-purpose model with a 262,144-token context window, supporting text, image and video input across thinking and non-thinking modes.
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kimi-k2.6Key facts
At a glance
- Context window
- 262,144
- Parameters
- 1T
- Released
- April 20, 2026
- Output / 1M
- $4.00
Pricing
How much does Kimi K2.6 cost?
Kimi K2.6 costs $0.95 per million input tokens on a cache miss, $0.16 per million on a cache hit, and $4.00 per million output tokens. Prices exclude tax.
| Token type | Price per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input — cache hit | $0.16 |
| Input — cache miss | $0.95 |
| Output | $4.00 |
What a real request costs
A 100,000-token prompt with a 5,000-token response costs $0.115 cold. Repeat that same prompt prefix so 80% of the input hits the cache and it drops to $0.052 — a 55% saving.
This is why headline per-token prices mislead on agent workloads, where the system prompt and tool definitions repeat on every call.
Capabilities
What can Kimi K2.6 do?
- Text inputsupported
- Image inputsupported
- Video inputsupported
- Thinking modesupported
- Tool callingsupported
- JSON modesupported
- Structured outputnot supported
- Partial modesupported
- Context cachingsupported
- Web searchsupported
- Open weightssupported
Notes
What the spec sheet leaves out
- The cheapest cache-hit input price in the current lineup at $0.16 per million tokens.
- Same cache-miss and output pricing as Kimi K2.7 Code, so K2.7 Code is the better default for coding work at effectively the same cost.
FAQ
Kimi K2.6 questions
What is Kimi K2.6?
Kimi K2.6 is a general-purpose model with a 262,144-token context window, supporting text, image and video input across thinking and non-thinking modes.
What is the Kimi K2.6 context window?
Kimi K2.6 has a 262,144-token context window. That total covers input and output combined, so a long prompt reduces the room left for the response.
How much does Kimi K2.6 cost?
Kimi K2.6 costs $0.95 per million input tokens on a cache miss, $0.16 per million on a cache hit, and $4.00 per million output tokens. Prices exclude tax.
Is Kimi K2.6 open source?
Moonshot AI published downloadable open weights for Kimi K2.6, so you can self-host it. That is not the same as an OSI-approved open-source licence — check the licence attached to the weight release before deploying commercially.
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Where these figures come from
Every specification and price on this page is transcribed from Moonshot AI’s own documentation and re-checked on the date shown. Nothing is estimated.